Improvement in stoves for heating sad-irons



R. MARTIN.

STOVES FOB. HEATING S'A-D-IR'0NS.

Patented March 20, 1877.

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UrTEn STATES PATENT Orrroa ROSA MARTIN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVES FOR HEATING SAD-IRONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 188,475, dated March20, 1877; application filed January 22, 1877. K

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROSA MARTIN, of Portland, in the county ofMultnomah, in the State of Oregon, have invented a Stove for HeatingSad-Irons, and other purposes, of which the following is a specificationThe object of this-invention is to save fuel, and the profusive heat ofordinary stoves in summer or at other times, when a small fire willanswer all purposes.

Myinvention consists of a sheet-iron box,

provided with a lid or cover, A, chamber orv receptacle B, fire-box (3,door and damper D,

, whole firmly to the stove-pipe. On the bottom of the fire-box are somecorrugated ribs I I of sheet metal, to keep the bottom from becoming toohot, and form an air-space below the fuel. E is a box, as it were, ofsheet metal, having three sides, the middle or top part forming thebottom of the heating-chamber B, and the crown-plate of the fire-box 0.By this arrangement the bottom and sides are made double thick when thelid A is closed, thus protecting the' room from an excess of heatotherwise developed.

Small articles of food or anything to be warmed or cooked are placed inthe receptacle B'.

The irons can easily be heated without heating the room in summer, orthe stove .may be used in a sick-room without the annoyance of profuseheat.

I claim- A stove consisting of the parts A B O D E F G I, as shown,substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

- ROSA MARTIN.

Witnesses E. AUGUSTA HUSSEY, G. B. TALBOT.

